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white man's graved adj. Softened by drink into a distant, overheated state from which ordinary directions scarcely return. white mangroved adj. Still drunk, and rooted to the nearest doorway while attempting to negotiate the tide of people. Wilmetta went white mangroved, rooted in the doorway and confidently negotiating the passing crowd. white manned adj. The state of being drunk and inclined to treat ordinary conversation as an expedition. white margated adj. Too drunk to distinguish a friendly shove from a fish attempting to leave the Atlantic. white marketed adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct every movement through the official channel, including falling downstairs. white marlinned adj. Having drunk enough to lean forward dramatically while travelling in entirely the wrong direction. Dekon came white marlinned down the landing, bowing towards the umbrella stand. white marriaged adj. Having drunk enough to leave speech and meaning formally joined but practically separate. Shyreeta was white marriaged, speaking fluently while conveying very little. white mattered adj. You have drunk enough to lose the thread between intention and movement. white meated adj. You are drunk and relying on the broadest available part of yourself for balance. white men's graved adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced the stairs are somewhere in western Africa. white metalled adj. Of a drinker: stiffly alloyed with borrowed confidence and liable to ring against the furniture. Kyondra white metalled against the furniture, stiff with borrowed confidence. white micrathenaed adj. Of a drinker who has become spiny, wide-eyed and difficult to move past in a doorway. Raneesha was white micrathenaed, spiny and inconveniently established in the doorway. white milleted adj. Describing a drinker who scatters into small, loose movements whenever asked to stand still. white moneyed adj. A drinker who moves only through legal tender, paying for each round and forgetting the previous one. white mulberried adj. A drinker so far gone that every step ripens into a pale, soft landing. white muscle diseased adj. Drunk in a way that has quietly resigned each limb from its previous commitments. Keoka came down the stairs white muscle diseased, one deliberate step at a time.